[aspell] Announce: Aspell .30

[Kevin Atkinson]

Aspell Version .30 is now avialbe at http://aspell.sourceforge.net/

This version requires Pspell to also be installed.  You can get pspell
from http://pspell.sourceforge.net/.

Changes from .29.1 to .30 (April 2, 2000)

  * Fixed many of the capitalization bugs found in previous versions of
    Aspell.
  * Changed the format of the main word list yet again.
  * Fixed a bug so that ``aspell check'' will work on the PowerPC.
  * Added ability to change configuration options in the middle of a
    session.
  * Added words from /usr/dict/words found on most Linux systems as well
    as a bunch of commonly used abbreviation to the word list.
  * Fixed a bug when aspell will dump core after reporting certain errors
    when compiled with gcc 2.95 or higher. This involved reworked the
    Exception heritage to get around a bug in gcc 2.95.
  * Added a few more commands to the list of default commands the TEX
    filter knows about.
  * Aspell will now check if a word only contains valid characters before
    adding it to any dictionaries. This might mean that you have to
    manually delete a few words from your personal word list.
  * Added option to ignore case when checking a document.
  * Adjusted the parameters of the ``normal'' suggest mode to so that
    significantly less far fetched results are returned in cases such as
    tomatoe, which went from 100 suggestions down to 32, at the expense of
    getting slightly lower results (less than 1%),
  * Improved the edit distance algorithm for slightly faster results.
  * Removed the $$m command in pipe mode, you should now use ``$$cs mode,
    mode '' to set the mode and ``$$cr mode'' to find out the current
    mode.
  * Reworked parts of Aspell to use Pspell services to avoid duplicating
    code.
  * Added a module for the newly released Pspell. It will get installed
    with the rest of aspell.
  * Miscellaneous other bug fixes.


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Kevin Atkinson
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http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/